Hat or cap



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J. G. GOEBBL.

HAT QR GAP. i Patented July 20, 1886.

illfl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. GOEBEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAT/OR CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming parl'. of Letters Patent N0.345,965, dated July 20, 1886.

Application filed March 1G, 1386. Serial No. 195,383. (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l. JOHN C. GoEEEr., a citi zen ofthe United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful Iinprovenient'sin Caps and Hats, ol' which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object I have in View is to provide a very light and .stff body or skeleton for caps and hats, that will form a durable stay for the sides of the crown and an elastic stretcher for the flexible tip; and for that purpose my invention consists in making such 'skeleton for the crown of wire-cloth, cut in a manner that the woven wires are on diagonal lines relative to the band and tip, and that the conA necting seam of the `joint of the wire-cloth is also on a diagonal line, all as more fully hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a vertical section of a cap. having my improvements; Fig. 2, an elevation of the body or skeleton detached, and Fig. 3, a vertical section of such body or skeleton.

Corresponding letters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

The skeleton for the side crown, A, I make of tinned wire'cloth about No. 36, which, as shown in the drawings, is cut iu a manner that, relative to the horizontal line of the t-ip, the wires will be on an angle of about fortytive degrees. The ends of this band of wirecloth are cut parallel with the warp or weftwires, and the overlapping ends are secured together by stitching to forni an angularl seam, a. For an expanded tip of the cap the. side crown has to be conical, and the pattern for the wire-cloth skeleton is cut accordingly. Around the upper edge of this wire-cloth ring is secured a baleen cord covered with a ribbon binding, and the lower edge of this wire-cloth ring is secured by stitching to the body-band,B, made of varnished buckrarn or other sized fabric, and to this is secured the visor or brim. This body or skeleton may be covered with any kind of woven fabric, and while it affords a stiff and yet perforate stay for the side crown of the cap or hat, it forms at the saine time an elastic stretcherlframe t'or the iiexible tip, that will keep such tip straight and from flapping or bulging even when wet from rain. The essential features of my device, therefore, is not only the n i of wire cloth for the stay or skeleton of theside crown ot'a hat or cap, but also t-he peculiar cutting of the wirecloth to have its wires on a diagonal line to the edges of the cloth, as else the desired elastin expansion and contraction of the side crown for stretching the tip will not be obtained, and that otherwise the shape of such wire cloth body cannot be made conical.

I am aware that haircloth has been used for the crown-lining in hats and caps, in which, however, the warp only is horse or cow tail hair, and the weft is cotton, and therefore it can afford stiffness only in one direction, andk will not render the expanding 'elasticity l 0btain with the use of wireclot-h in the manner described, besides that wire cloth is not affected by water, while hair-cloth with becoming wet will shrink.

A cap or hat thus made is very light and Ventilating, and will retain its original shape until worn ont.

What I claim is- Ina cap or hat having a flexible tip, the body or skeleton ofthe side crown, formed of wirecloth, the ends of which are connected by angular seams a, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. GOEBEL.

IVitnesses:

ANTON ScHoENiNGEn, Immers W. HUEHL.

l It is hereby certified that'in Letters Patent No. 345,965, granted July 20, 1886, upon the application of John C. Goebel, of Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Hats or Caps,77 an error appears in the printed specification requiring the following correotion, viz.: In line 81, the Word seams should read seam and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the swame may conform to the record of the oase in the Patent Office.

Signed, oountersi'gned, and sealed this 28th day of June, A. D. 1892.

[SEAL] GEO. CHANDLER, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersigned W. E. SIMONDS,

Oomom'ssiouer of Patents. 

